Re: Advice on selling Ada to a C shop

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> writes:

> On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:30:12 -0500, "Randy Brukardt"
> <randy@rrsoftware.com> declaimed the following in comp.lang.ada:
>
>
>> In a function returning T'Class:
>>     return (if C then A else B); -- A and B have different types, both 
>> covered by T'Class.
>>
> 	Ah, at least the syntax reads naturally... I'd have preferred that
> Python not have added conditional expressions, but I sure don't like
> what they did add:
>
>>>> A = "It's me"
>>>> B = "Not me"
>>>> C = True
>>>> A if C else B
> "It's me"
>>>> C = False
>>>> A if C else B
> 'Not me'
>>>> 
>
> 	I'd have preferred the condition first...

That's because you have not been exposed to the Forth language. One of
my favorite bumber stickers reads:

4th <heart> if honk

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